Background
YELIZAROVA-UL’YANOVA, Anna was born in August 1864 in Nizhniy Novgorod, V. I. Lenin’s sister.
YELIZAROVA-UL’YANOVA, Anna was born in August 1864 in Nizhniy Novgorod, V. I. Lenin’s sister.
1880 graduate Simbirsk Girls High-School. 1883 studied at Bestuzhev Higher Women's Courses.
Teacher; 1887 arrested in connection with A. I. Ul’yanov’s attempted assassination of Alexander III and exiled to Kazan Province where she was kept under police surveillance. Later tranferred to village Alakayevka, Samara Province, then to Samara. Late 1893 moved to Moscow and worked for Social-Democralic circles.
1896 member, Saint St. Petersburg League for the Liberation of the Working Clas. Wrote workers’ proclamations. 1897 established connection with Liberation of Labor group.
1898 member, Moscow Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Committee. Lenin, who at that time was in Siberian exile, entrusted her with various commissions. 1900 went abroad and for two years worked for Lenin’s “Iskra”.
1902 Party work in Tomsk, Samara and Kiev. January 1904 arrested in connection with the case of Party Central Committee and Kiev Party Committee. 1904-1906 with Saint St. Petersburg Bolshevik Committee.
Smuggled to Moscow and other Russian towns Bolshevik newspapers “Vperyod” and “Proletariy”. Late 1908-1909 arranged Moscow publ of Lenin’s book “Materialism i empiriokrititsizm” (Materialism and Empirical Criticism). From late 1905 worked for “Proletariy”.
1910 with Saratov Party Committee. Arrested; 1912-1914 worked for newspapers “Pravda” and “Prosveshchcniye”. During WVV 1 maintained liaison between Russian Party organisation and Party center abroad.
1916 re-arrested and exiled to Astrakhan’ Province. After 1917 February Revol secretary, “Pravda”. Editor, journal “Tkach”; helped prepare and carry out 1917 October Revol.
1918-1921 head, Department for Mother and Child Care, People's Commissariat of Education. Also Party work; from 1921 with Commission to Collect and Study Material on Party History and October Revol. Member, editorial board, journal “Proletarskaya revolyutsiya”.
Then associate, Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute.
Religion is bad because it doesn't give equal treatment to women and thus offends basic human rights.
All policy decisions should be made in the light of the continued, permanent development of the theory of Marxism–Leninism.
Communist Party member from 1898.